Originally written by Luke Slater · 16 November 2011
This year's w h o k i l l by Tune-Yards could well be one of the best of 2011. Dom Gourlay wrote in his review that "as long players go, 2011 won't get much better than this, and with whokill, Merrill Garbus has somehow managed to encompass more ideas into just over 40 minutes than most artists manage in a lifetime. It goes without saying the bar has been raised, both in terms of Garbus and the rest of the competition".
You'll have to see if it makes it to anywhere near the top of our albums of the year in the next couple of weeks, though. I'm not giving anything away, either. What we can tell you, though, is that Merrill Garbus has added a couple of UK shows and an Irish one at the start of her upcoming European tour. All dates on that jaunt now listed below:
February: 12 - Dublin, Button Factory 13 - Leeds, The Cockpit 15 - London, Shepherd's Bush Empire 16 - Lille, Grand Mix 17 - Rennes, UBU 18 - Paris, Maroquinerie 19 - Grenoble, Le Ciel 20 - Dudigen, Bad Bonn 22 - Brussels, Botanique (Orangerie) 23 - Amsterdam, Melkweg 25 - Oslo, Blå 26 - Malmö, Debaser 28 - Berlin, Festsaal Kreuzburg 29 - Munich, Rote Sonne
March: 1 - St. Gallen, Palace 2 - Turin, Hiroshima 3 - Rome, Lanificio 4 - Milan, Tunnel 6 - Bologna, Locomotiv 7 - Zagreb, Tvornica Kulture 8 - Ljubljana, Menza Pri Koritu 10 - Istanbul, Salon 13 - Tel Aviv, Barby Theatre
Below you can watch the video for 'Bizness', which has really done the 'bizness' as it has over 1.2 million views. Woah.